Pacific Performances

Theatricality and Cross-Cultural Encounter in the South Seas

By: C. Balme

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Hardcover | 14 November 2006 | Edition Number 1

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Incorporating the very latest approaches to performance studies, this new study by Christopher Balme explores the history of cross-cultural performative encounters in the Pacific from the eighteenth-century to the present. Using the concept of theatricality, it examines both the performance cultures of Pacific peoples as they negotiated the colonial situation and Western theatrical representations. The material investigated ranges from eighteenth-century pantomimes to Broadway plays and musicals; ethnographic spectacles and colonial ceremonies rub shoulders with contemporary tourist theme parks and Samoan stand-up comedy.

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'What the book provides is a superb way to begin to understand how rich the study of theatre and performance in the South Pacific may come to be...an extraordinarily valuable wide-angle glimpse of a diverse field.' - Sharon Mazer, Theatre Journal

'While Balme shines in his reading of the postcolonial politics that frame this type of theatrical setting, it is his larger argument about the performativity of cultural encounters...that constitutes his larger contribution to Pacific scholarship.' - Jane Desmond, The Contemporary Pacific

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List of Illustrations	p. ix
Series Editors' Preface	p. xi
Preface	p. xii
Introduction	p. 1
Definitions	p. 2
Mimetic capital and exotic commodities	p. 7
Performance in Paradise	p. 9
Fishing grounds	p. 12
The passage	p. 13
Pacific Overtures: Trumpets, Beaches and Women	p. 19
Trumpets and hornpipes	p. 20
Landings and beaches	p. 24
Shocking spectacles	p. 29
Venus observ'd	p. 36
Wanton dancing	p. 38
Becoming the other	p. 42
Staged Authenticity: The South Seas and European Theatre, 1785-1830	p. 47
Spectacles of emotion: Cook o sia Gl'inglesi in Othaiti	p. 48
Restaging first encounters: La Mort du Capitaine Cook	p. 56
La Perouse and the imaginary Pacific	p. 61
A royal revue: their Sandwich Majesties	p. 67
Comedians and Crusaders: Anti-Theatrical Prejudice in the South Seas	p. 74
Plato's legacy	p. 76
Arioi te fenua: comedians of the land	p. 79
Ocular proof: baptisms and idols	p. 85
Plays and heroes	p. 89
Dressing the Hula and Taming the Haka: Performing Identity in Hawai'i and New Zealand	p. 95
Performative metonymy	p. 96
Reinventing the hula	p. 98
Hula kahiko (ancient hula)	p. 102
Iconography of the hula	p. 104
Taming the haka	p. 115
Kindred Spirits: Spectacles of Samoa in Wilhelminian Germany	p. 122
A place in the sun	p. 123
Anthropological anxieties	p. 126
Samoan troupes and the politics of the colonial gaze	p. 129
'Impressing the natives': colonial ceremony in Samoa	p. 134
Tenth anniversary celebrations	p. 139
Mixing ceremonies	p. 142
Birds of Paradise: American-Pacific Dramas of Displacement	p. 146
The Bird of Paradise	p. 148
Rain	p. 155
Pacific and Oriental lines: South Pacific	p. 164
'As You Always Imagined It': The Pacific as Tourist Spectacle	p. 174
The Polynesian Cultural Center and tourist performance	p. 177
Staging Polynesian culture(s)	p. 179
Mimicry and resisting the tourist gaze	p. 181
Framing authenticity	p. 186
Translocations and Transgressions: The Postcolonial Pacific	p. 191
Pacific diasporas	p. 192
The play of memory	p. 194
Ritual reincorporation	p. 196
The Pacific is burning	p. 200
Dystopic paradise	p. 213
Notes	p. 218
Selected Bibliography	p. 245
Index	p. 251
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